I
t’s a bright winter morning and New Year Resolutions have not yet failed. Perhaps this is the time to reflect
on a considered life and to follow the path of people since the Morning Star first rose ages ago, to have a dialog with the living Earth and with all that is held in the Sacred Spaces within. Scholar Joseph Campbell invites us to come to places where people may acknowledge and focus on who they really are, and in what, or whom, they place their ultimate trust. One of these sacred places is a circle of stones at Stonehenge, another the sacred groves of trees of the Greeks. Such a Sacred Place available here and now is the Labyrinth. The Labyrinth, a marvel of geometry, is a spiral pattern, a single path, unlike the maze with junctions and dead-ends to puzzle the mind and to call upon left-brain logic. Instead, its turns and reverses release the right brain’s creativity and intuition as the Pilgrim progresses toward the Center, choosing the pace, following the Path. There is tension in the twisting path, a tension between soul and body, between the ancient and the new, the known and the unknown. Only the imagination is native to this rhythm. The feet feel the rhythm, and the energy rises as the pent-up tension is released. The spirit initiates
the labyrinth following the path
@story Clara Jane Rubarth @image Greg Hartman
a profound conversation with the mind as new thoughts are born, promoting introspection and reflection. This walking journey is not the province of any age, any people. Navaho, Hopi, and Pima trace such patterns on sand and pottery and baskets.
Archaeologists have uncovered sacred paths
in primordial caves. The crypt beneath the nave of the great